The dashboard is the backend interface for managing the store. That includes the
product catalogue, orders and stock, offers etc. It is intended as a
complete replacement of the Django admin interface.
The app itself only contains a view that serves as a kind of homepage, and
some logic for managing the navigation (in nav.py). There’s several sub-apps
that are responsible for managing the different parts of the Oscar store.

Staff users (users with is_staff==True) get access to all views in the
dashboard. To better support Oscar’s use for marketplace scenarios, the
permission-based dashboard has been introduced. If a non-staff user has
the partner.dashboard_access permission set, she is given access to a subset
of views, and her access to products and orders is limited.

AbstractPartner instances
have a users field.
Prior to Oscar 0.6, this field was not used. Since Oscar 0.6, it is used solely
for modelling dashboard access.

If a non-staff user with the partner.dashboard_access permission is in
users, she can:

Create products. It is enforced that at least one stock record’s partner has
the current user in users.

Update products. At least one stock record must have the user in the stock
record’s partner’s users.

Delete and list products. Limited to products the user is allowed to update.

Managing orders. Similar to products, a user get access if one of an order’s
lines is associated with a matching partner.

For many marketplace scenarios, it will make sense to ensure at checkout that
a basket only contains lines from one partner.
Please note that the dashboard currently ignores any other permissions,
including Django’s default permissions.

Get report of order revenue split up in hourly chunks. A report is
generated for the last hours (default=24) from the current time.
The report provides max_revenue of the hourly order revenue sum,
y-range as the labeling for the y-axis in a template and
order_total_hourly, a list of properties for hourly chunks.
segments defines the number of labeling segments used for the y-axis
when generating the y-axis labels (default=10).